THE ROBOTS ARE COMING

AUTHOR(S)

Kelly, Tim

PUB. DATE

September 2006

SOURCE

Forbes Asia;9/4/2006, Vol. 2 Issue 14, p120

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on developments in the area of robotic innovation. Since Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term robota in 1921, which means forced labor in Czech, robots have fallen far short of what we had imagined they would be able to do. The masters of robotic innovation include entrepreneurs and researchers who fuse advances in biomechanics, software, sensor technology, materials science and computing to create new generations of robotic assistants.

The article reports on the emergence of robots in the working industry to replace jobs which workers deem as repetitive and tedious. According to the author, the term 'robot' was coined by Czech author Karel Capek in his 1921 play "R.U.R," whose theme was world domination by mechanical workers....

The article focuses on the first use of the word robot and evolution of robots. The robot word was first used by Czech playwright Karel Capek in "Rossum's Universal Robots." Issac Asomov first coined the term robotics in a collection of short stories "I Robot." The robot was first used in the...

The article tackles the history and advancement of robots. The word robot came from the play "Rossum's Universal Robots," written by Karel Capek in the early 1920s. The play was premiered in 1921, and within 10 years, analog computer was developed, followed by transistors, integrated circuits...

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Drawing on material from the BBC Written Archive Centre, this article examines the earliest sf dramas broadcast by the BBC Television Service: two adaptations of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) from 1938 and 1948. These productions were used as sites of formal experimentation...